Alm and Bruno sighed in sync with his conclusion. Another missionary was too close. Well, Kaiyka and Mihkriel are in such a bad state that they can’t be called missionaries anymore; the whale is the only one still existing and operational.
Some missionaries, using the techniques and benefits they received, must have devised ways to return. Now they knew there were fallen missionaries and other ancient races waiting for them; several potential allies might be nearby, just waiting to be found. Now they didn’t need to worry about Kaiyka’s loyalty anymore; just find that inheritance and they gained a great ally for the future.
The whale turned to Kaiyka; she was stunned and a bit angry at their abrupt invasion. They decided not to tell the truth now; it was too surreal to find out it was her own grandmother, and the cause of all the suffering she had gone through in this life was her own fault in the past. After receiving the inheritance, it should be easier to accept.
"Sorry, had to check something," the whale said calmly, but Kaiyka’s gaze remained a bit angry. "You can imagine how difficult it is to be who I am, I have to make sure you were trustworthy. Well, I’ll compensate you for that, so don’t dwell on it too much."
Kaiyka snorted, and the whale looked at her seriously and gestured for her to come closer. She hesitated a bit, but moved and stopped in front of them. Kaiyka was a small woman and should be five centimeters taller than Ruri. The whale just extended its hand and gently touched her head, making both her and Ruri’s eyes widen.
But it only took a minute for the whale to withdraw its hand. In the same second, a golden and pulsating rune appeared on Kaiyka’s forehead, leaving her completely shocked.
"Now you’re also an Empyrean, but it’s a bit different from the norm, so be careful,"
The whale said, then turned to Ruri beside him. "She’s approved, give her everything she can receive."
"Great, I’ve already prepared someone," Ruri said smiling and sent a message to Venjio.
In a few minutes, the poor boy entered the castle walking robotically and extremely nervous. Ruri left with Kaiyka still in awe and gave him a dry look; he straightened his back trying to calm down. Then he took Kaiyka to the city; he would show her all the places and give her the mental cultivation at level one, available to everyone. After that, Kaiyka would be taken to explore the incomplete Daos and many other things that would leave her completely stunned.
Alm and Bruno were calm. Kaiyka didn’t know where the inheritance was, but when they were close, the system would give them a mission, just like it happened with the Onis. It should take a few days for the families to send the message of their punishment. Then they turned to the huge gains of this family competition.
It was at that moment that Ruri returned to the room excited to be left alone. The whale just waved, and a purple and feline figure appeared on his shoulder.
"I’m going to the forge, and you still have to reflect on what happened in the competition. Hang out with Liumi for a bit; the forest and the Grassrunners can teach you a lot."
They spoke slowly, and Ruri looked down a bit saddened. Her defeat was a big blow, but Alm and Bruno were sure she would learn a lot from it, and Liumi’s simplicity would help her. In life, nothing is under your control, and the Grassrunners just live without judging things; defeats are painful, but they bring much more learning than victories.
As soon as they spoke, Liumi jumped onto Ruri’s shoulder, and the two watched him depart while the feline tried to console her. Before reaching the forge, the whale stopped by Loeus’s house and they checked more thoroughly the state of his awakened rune. In the arena, they had already removed a large part of the queen’s dominion, but it was a quick job and they tried not to attract attention; now, they did the complete service.
With everything done, they finally arrived at the forge. Alm and Bruno retrieved their two saint-level immortal weapons. One was a bluish and heavy spear, and the other was a black-bladed sword. They analyzed the two spirits in the weapons; they were very simple and with little intelligence, which disappointed them. They were on a similar level to Fides in the beginning, but now they didn’t have time to teach them from scratch anymore; it demanded too much effort and dedication, and without intelligence, the power of the core was extremely limited.
Liumi didn’t need to be told about her intelligence; already the other soul that was in the inventory waiting to be used had a very high intelligence. Fides was like a child learning to speak, but could already do things perfectly somehow.
Bruno commented lightly. ’Corin studied a lot the laws of earth, fire, Yin, and Yang because he had them available through the array. This lance will give him the opportunity to study the laws of water, and it’s still heavy and perfect for his physical cultivation. He will also have time to take care of that soul.’
’The soul of the sword is very close to Yin. Rehvka needed a core to put in his dagger, and perfect, his dagger will also become a saint-level immortal weapon,’ Alm concluded.
For others, changing the core’s location was impossible, but for the Dao of the God of Forge, it was simple. Alm didn’t mind removing the two souls from the saint-level core and putting Fides and Liumi, changing the core for their weapons. But that would be the same as killing the spirits and sending them to reincarnate; Bruno refused to do that. So, the best solution was to hand them over for their disciples to make better use of.
As for the other 633 immortal weapons at the peak of the common level, when they received them still in the arena, they noticed something unusual: none of them had a soul.
In their previous universe, all immortal weapons had a soul. This soul increased the weapon’s capacity several times, but uniting a soul with the weapon was extremely complex and difficult. In the queen’s universe, since there were higher levels of immortal weapons, they must have found a way to create and make basic weapons more powerful without putting a soul; this made it easier to create them and left the difficulty of having a soul only in the higher level ones.
That was the reason the two demanded many of these weapons as rewards. With the chaotic refinement and the abilities of the God of Forge, this would give them a great opportunity.
It took six hours for the whale to do the first tests and analysis. At level three of the God of Forge’s Dao, they gained a deep knowledge of immortal cores and other things. But there was nothing about the saint level, so now, studying the two weapons, they managed to understand their differences.
They separated 50 common immortal weapons and removed their cores. The material of the weapons was high-level, but nothing spectacular, so they stored them in case they were needed. They then used chaotic refinement and disintegrated all the cores into molecules.
Six more tense hours in extreme concentration passed. Alm and Bruno went through the process slowly using all their focus and knowledge... until, finally, only one core remained.
’Success!’ Bruno exclaimed excitedly and removed the core, analyzing it. ’It’s very similar... no! It looks even better than the saint-level core! In the next levels of the God of Forge’s Dao, there must be more knowledge, so we can improve this even further in the future.’
After the success, Alm and Bruno didn’t hesitate. First, they removed Fides’ soul from his core and merged his core with the new saint-level core with chaotic refinement.
Everything was faster and smoother; in no time, they made some adjustments and the heavy sword now officially became a saint-level immortal weapon. They now felt that they had officially maximized the weapon material’s capacity. Even if they could raise the core level in the future, the moon crystal wouldn’t support it and they would have to forge with something else.
Before, Fides’ core was two-thirds damaged, and it was still a basic core. Now, it was in a 100% perfect core, and its power level when it became a saint core multiplied dozens of times. Adding it all up... when Alm and Bruno removed the sword from the inventory.
BOOOM!
It fell from their hands and crashed to the ground. They activated the physical cultivation to the limit... but they couldn’t lift it at all! Its weight and power had increased drastically.
They just stored it directly in the inventory, excited with the results. Now, they focused on using all the remaining 583 weapons.
Unfortunately, they failed more than once. With chaotic refinement, they didn’t lose everything completely, but that wasn’t a simple material, but a delicate and complex immortal core; with repeated failures, they ended up losing a little at the beginning.
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After learning to handle it better, the losses turned into zero. In the end, the results were still good and they perfected the technique to the maximum. It took four days to complete everything, and seven immortal cores were forged and ready to be used.
While they were excited about the gains, the message arrived from Langrum. An elder from the families was looking for him.